- Test Debut v West Indies at Rawalpindi - November 1997
- ODI Debut v India at Karachi - February 2006
- The world's fastest bowlers fastest recorded delivery was clocked at 161.4 km/h making it the quickest ever recorded in modern day cricket.
- From 2002-2004 he produced match winning bowling efforts against New Zealand (twice) and South Africa.
- When he is fit, he is the most destructive fast bowler in the world with a strike rate second to none.
- England discovered to their cost that he has now developed a devastating slower ball, which accounted for a number of wickets in the recent Test series in Pakistan.